**BOOK #2 of The Promise Series**
❝ We finally escaped the maze, but with what costs? I miss Ben. I miss Clint. I miss Zart. I miss Jeff. I miss Alby. I miss Chuck. And I miss Gally so much- maybe if I just had kept my promises, Gally could still...
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Finley's POV:
I pull my blankets off of my body and sit up, lifting my head from the comfort of that warm pillow. A searing pain spreads through my whole body. I hiss out in pain and cover my mouth with my hand to try to keep myself quiet. I slid my feet from under the blankets onto the cold tiled floor. Goosebumps spread across my weak body. I walked across the room towards the washroom, gripping onto the cold metal doorknob and pushing it open.
My reflection in the mirror scared the shit out of me. I had to take a second look to make sure it was me that I was seeing.
My hair was tangled in a frizzy mess, the dark circles under my eyes were almost a purple-like colour, and my cheeks were sunken in. I looked like I had just crawled back from the freaking dead.
With a tired sigh, I walked back out to the room where the bed was. Suddenly, I heard a rustling sound coming from behind me.
"Finley?" A voice whispered. "Finley?" The voice called again.
The voice was coming from the vent, I took a couple of steps closer and when I did the vent door popped open and Aris stuck his head out.
"What the shuck?" I jumped back. "Vent boy!" I whisper-shouted in anger from him scaring the literal klunk out of me.
"Finley, we're meeting Thomas. He might have gotten a way into that room," he informed me.
"Right now?"
"Yes, now. Let's go."
I climbed into the vent after Aris and we began rushing through the long, dark vent tunnels until we got to a dead end. Aris pushed open the vent door and slid out.
"Hey, Thomas," I heard Aris say while he lay on the floor, held up by his elbow. I slid through the vent door and lay on the floor beside Aris. I looked up to see Fry, Winston, Minho, Newt, Jack, and Thomas all standing in a bunk room looking down at Aris and me.
"If Finley is helping them, then there must be some actual klunk going on," Minho stated from knowing Finely well enough.
"All right, look, maybe you guys are right," Thomas said turning to the gladers as he bend down to Aris and me. "Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I got to find out for sure. Just cover for me, I'll be back as soon as I can."
"No, you're not going anywhere," Newt demands in a threatening tone.
